‘Worst nightmare of my life’: 70-year-old woman attacked by raccoon while decorating home for the holidays - "I got him in a headlock and wouldn’t let go,” she said in the post. “As he was biting me I could hear bones breaking in his neck

'Worst nightmare of my life': 70-year-old woman attacked by raccoon while decorating home for the holidays

The Lancaster woman sustained multiple bite and scratch wounds in the attack. Read more on Boston.com.

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‘Worst nightmare of my life’: 70-year-old woman attacked by raccoon while decorating home for the holidays

A 70-year-old Lancaster woman was decorating her house for the holidays when a raccoon attacked her.


Now, she’s undergoing a series of rabies shots.

Donna Sanginario said it was around 4 p.m. last Wednesday when she was putting lights on the bushes in front of her house.

Then, she heard a “strange noise.”

“I turned around to see what the noise was and I was staring at a huge raccoon about 10 feet away,” she wrote in a Facebook post. “Before I could do anything it jumped at me. Worst nightmare of my life.”

She screamed, and the raccoon dislodged, but it unfortunately was not finished. It jumped and began attacking her again, Sanginario wrote.

The animal weighed about 45 pounds, she told WCVB.



“After somehow tumbling to the ground I got him in a headlock and wouldn’t let go,” she said in the post. “As he was biting me I could hear bones breaking in his neck. He finally [stopped] screaming so I got off him. He got up and walked away.”

Sanginario has what appears to be multiple bite and scratch wounds, as well as bruising, all over her arms from the attack. The sweatshirt she was wearing also had bloodstains on it, according to photos she posted on Facebook.

Police looked for the animal but couldn’t find it, according to WCVB, so it couldn’t be tested for rabies. Sanginario is now undergoing a round of rabies shots as a precaution.

Shauna Terkanian, Sanginario’s daughter, told WCVB she wanted to bring awareness to the area.

“I worry about all the kids in the neighborhood and the animals,” she said.

 

[SSj_Ness (Yiffed)]

That's badass.

 

[KiwiFuzz]

It's possible to eradicate rabies by eliminating all mammals that can be seen as having it. If we'd invested the money funneled into covid bullshit for the past two years we'd be well on the way to actually solving this disease.

In the US, this would be all the skunks, raccoons, foxes, bobcats, coyotes, and bats, among others.

There's a good book called "Coyote America" and a big chunk of it is about the longstanding rural war on coyotes with eradication being the goal. It hasn't worked at all. We fought the coyotes and the coyotes won.

The number of people who get rabies every year in the US versus the spectacular environmental and financial cost of eliminating a huge chunk of the wildlife would not be worth it. Not even close.

India is the place that needs to get a handle on their rabies.

 

[SpookNuker]

based raccoon removing the boomer menace

I'm surprised they haven't been domesticated yet, from what I've seen they make for great autistic housecats

feels bad that we don't have raccoons in bongland

Oh, they’re cute alright, fairly social, and can be very smart/cunning, but they exist to destroy. Most of them aren’t good pets if you value your property. Best if you raise them from a very young age and get them from a breeder, but even then they are extremely high maintenance and perhaps never really domesticated. There's also no telling what their temperament will be. Some can be very affectionate and others turn into absolute assholes.

Also you will need to child-proof your house, because they can and will get into everything.

 

[Nobue]

Well, I know which grandma I'm not biting

 

[Mr. Bung]

"The animal weighed about 45 pounds, she told WCVB."

Why do articles often use the word "the animal" in later sentences when referring to the subject? Just call it a raccoon again.

 

[Snekposter]

based raccoon removing the boomer menace

I'm surprised they haven't been domesticated yet, from what I've seen they make for great autistic housecats

feels bad that we don't have raccoons in bongland

You guys have foxes. They're cuter and just as trash-happy these days.

 

[Kujo Jotaro]

It's possible to eradicate rabies by eliminating all mammals that can be seen as having it. If we'd invested the money funneled into covid bullshit for the past two years we'd be well on the way to actually solving this disease.

At best you could reduce incidences of animals infected with it coming into contact with humans. No way you could ever eradicate it, the idea sounds like wishful thinking from somone who's never stepped foot into the woods.

 

[Toolbox]

At best you could reduce incidences of animals infected with it coming into contact with humans. No way you could ever eradicate it, the idea sounds like wishful thinking from somone who's never stepped foot into the woods.

Well I say this as countries have claimed to have eradicated rabies within their borders. It definitely seems like it would be possible in countries that are fairly isolated, but for others the difficulty would go up dramatically. Rabies relies incredibly on having a host that can directly transfer the disease by attacking other animals or by dying and having its infected body consumed. It's less wishful thinking to demolish a disease like this than ones that are essentially the common cold in transmission and adaptation.

 

[Your Favorite New Friend]

It's possible to eradicate rabies by eliminating all mammals that can be seen as having it. If we'd invested the money funneled into covid bullshit for the past two years we'd be well on the way to actually solving this disease.

I'm not disagreeing with your plan to destroy every animal can harbor rabies, but note that this includes humans.

 

[Jarch6]

Based boomer, people forget that nature isn't just Disney magic. I am reminded of a video I saw of two vacationers just casually filming a boar trying to talk to it like it was some sort of pet before it decides to charge the cameraman.